Week 49 - VMware Digital Workspace Update






Weekly highlight: 

 

Announcing SaaS availability of VMware Workspace ONE UEM Console 2111

  • VMware Workspace ONE UEM Console 2111 is available to Shared SaaS customers as of December 7, 2021! Rollouts to Shared SaaS environments will begin next week. 

  • What's New?

  • Stay informed with our brand new console banner notifications.
    With the new console banner notifications that appear across the top of the UEM console, you can stay updated on maintenance issues, upgrades, outages, and product announcements.

  • We've made a few enhancements to the Freestyle Orchestrator.

  • Freestyle has been promoted from technical preview to limited availability for SaaS customers. The following improvements to Freestyle Orchestrator have been made in this release.
    We have added a fast lane delivery of workflows to small device fleets. That is, workflows being deployed to <2000 devices, the devices will be notified immediately upon publishing.
    Workflows in Windows can be retrieved by devices during device check-in even when no user is logged in. This behavior requires Windows Hub 21.11.
    Workflow statuses will now be reported more frequently by devices to increase visibility to administrators, and this requires Windows Hub 21.11.
    We have made changes to the Hub catalog and assignment statuses behavior when an app is assigned both from workflows and directly.
    Additionally, admins can now add a change log to workflows and force them to execute.

  • We’ve made check-in check-out more flexible by introducing guest sessions for Launcher
    You can now designate a second Launcher profile as a Guest Session profile and enable users to skip directory authentication and quickly access installed applications.

  • Silently install your required App Store apps
    With iOS 15.1, you can set any single App Store app as a required app during enrollment. When installing the app using Workspace One UEM or Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub, the app deploys silently, even on unsupervised devices.

  • We've added support for SCEP Certificate Deployment
    From a Chrome User or Device Network (or Credentials) profile, you can now choose a SCEP certificate authority and template when adding a template-based certificate.

 

 

 

Software Releases Week 49

 

System

Component

Release

Announcement

Release Date

Backend

Console SAAS

21.11

  • See Release Notes Below.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/2111/rn/vmware-workspace-one-uem-2111-release-notes/index.html

07.12.21

Backend

WS1 Access OnPrem

21.08.0.1

  • Fix for the Workspace ONE Access virtual appliance deployment issue where you cannot use the Setup wizard because of an expired root user password error

  • Security improvements and other fixes

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Access/21.08/rn/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Access-2108-Release-Notes-On-Premises.html

09.12.21

Backend

WS1 Intelligence

21.12.07

  • We've updated the integration of Carbon Black with the Trust Network feature.

    • The integration now provides faster delivery of Carbon Black threat and risk information to Workspace ONE Intelligence. It also includes a new field entitled Threat Event Status that you can use in your Intelligence queries. This field identifies when Carbon Black changes and updates its alerts. 

    • To take advantage of these new capabilities, navigate to the Integrations Dashboard and update the API keys for the Carbon Black integration. For more information regarding this enhancement, access the article Workspace ONE Intelligence Integration Update.

  • In the CVE solution, we've added support for iOS.

  • Users can now group data by different time ranges (daily, weekly, 28 days) in widgets.
    This enhancement enables use cases where the user wants to see data points by larger timeframes such as total bytes received by week or month.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE/services/rn/Workspace-ONE-Intelligence-Release-Notes.html

07.12.21

Backend

Hub Services SaaS

December 2021

Hub App Icon Customization

Admins can now customize the Hub app icon color by picking from a list of curated colors to match your company branding. To customize the color of the icon, go to Hub Services console > Branding > Logos> Mobile App Icon and select an option from the color presets. Once the change is saved, users will see the new Hub icon color on the next launch of the Hub app.

Note: This will be supported on Hub for iOS version 20.11 and Hub for Android version 21.01

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE/services/rn/Workspace-ONE-Hub-Services-Cloud-2021-Release-Notes.html#about

09.12.21

Android

Boxer

21.11

  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Boxer-for-Android.html

08.12.21

Android

Content

21.12

  • CICO - This feature allows users to have new, clean session of WS1-Content app as they login, and log-out from a multi-user shared device via WS1- launcher.

  • Custom Acknowledgement button - This feature allows WS1-Content admins to configure the text on Acknowledgement button as per their enterprise requirement. Also, they will have an added capability to customise the time that a user needs to spend on document before they can acknowledge it.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/VMware-Workpace-ONE-Content-for-Android.html

09.12.21

Android

Launcher

21.10

  • Introducing improved user experiences for check-in check-out flows and single app mode.

    • Cleaned up the check-in check-out login screen and profile loading screens.

    • Introduced a dropdown for selecting recently used Group IDs to speed up the log in process.

    • Introduced new screens and animations for permission granting screens.

      • Starting with 21.10, we now show the permission screens before an end user checks out the device.

    • Redesigned the single app floating home button with new customization.

  • You can now manually specify the duration of showing the clearing app data waiting screen before the next user can log into the device.

  • In Launcher's single app mode, you can now manually configure the number of home button clicks to display the single app floating action button.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/Introducing-VMware-Workspace-ONE-Launcher-for-Android.html

06.12.21

Windows

Drop Ship Provisioning bundle

2.0

This bundle is designed to support to the release of the self-service feature set for DropShipProvisioning Online. The bundle includes:

  1. Generic PPKG

  2. Generic Unattend

  3. WS1 Prov Tool 3.2 msi

  4. WS1 Provisioning Tool OSL

  5. Batch script to run staging tasks

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/Provisioning_WorkspaceONE/GUID-9CE2ADE1-D73E-4693-812F-4281BEB0EC72.html

06.12.21

Android

SDK

21.11

  • ASDK-173134 : Android Minimum SDK set to 21 .

  • Bug fixes

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/VMware-Workspace-ONE-SDK-for-Android.html

09.12.21

 

 

Apple Configurator now available on iPhone for adding Macs not purchased by an organization into Business Manager

 

App Transport Security (ATS) in Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for iOS (87035)

  • Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for iOS has ATS enabled. App Transport Security (ATS) is an iOS feature that forces mobile apps to connect to back-end servers using HTTPS, instead of HTTP, to encrypt data in transit. ATS enforces a minimum security level for communications between a mobile app and web services that support its functionality. Use cases where ATS may influence the experience due to using HTTP (non HTTPS) link/URL:

    • Helpful Resources in the Support Tab

    • Embedded links/urls from the Home (Custom) Tab

    • Web Clip/SaaS Apps in Favorites/Apps/Explore Tabs

    • Link objects or Action Buttons with links in notification cards in the For You Tab

  • VMware recommendation is to leverage secure/HTTPS links/urls when configuring any of the above locations. VMware has no plans to disable ATS in the Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub for iOS application.

  • KB-Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87035?lang=en_US

 

FCA-200587: Workspace ONE UEM - Strings "Console" and "Browser" Not Translated on Login History Page (86492)

  • In the Workspace ONE UEM Console under the Login History page (Accounts > Administrators > System Activity > Login History) and Login History user modal, strings "Console" and "Browser" in the Login Type and Application columns will not be translated when your admin locale is set to any language other than English. The strings "Console" and "Browser" remain in English regardless of the locale setting.

  • Valid for: Workspace ONE UEM 2111

  • Due to a change made to update the UI framework of the Login History page in Workspace ONE UEM, two strings found on the page - "Console" and "Browser" are not translated when the admin locale setting is changed from English to another language.

  • Viewing the Login History page in Workspace ONE UEM in any locale other than English will result in the strings "Console" and "Browser" to not be translated to the appropriate language.

  • Our product team has been engaged and is actively working to resolve the issue.

  • KB-Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/86492?lang=en_US

 

 

VMware Techzone, YouTube and Blog Updates

 

Blog, 3rd Party and Partner Updates

 

Software Updates December 2021

 

System

Component

Release

Announcement

Release Date

Backend

Console SAAS

21.11

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/2111/rn/vmware-workspace-one-uem-2111-release-notes/index.html

07.12.21

Backend

Assist

21.09

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/Workspace-ONE-Assist.html

02.12.21

iOS

Workspace ONE SDK SWIFT

21.11

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/VMware-Workspace-ONE-SDK-for-iOS--Swift-.html

03.12.21

Android

Boxer

21.11

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Boxer-for-Android.html

08.12.21

Android

Content

21.12

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/VMware-Workpace-ONE-Content-for-Android.html

09.12.21

Android

Launcher

21.10

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/rn/Introducing-VMware-Workspace-ONE-Launcher-for-Android.html

06.12.21

Windows

Drop Ship Provisioning bundle

2.0

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-UEM/services/Provisioning_WorkspaceONE/GUID-9CE2ADE1-D73E-4693-812F-4281BEB0EC72.html

06.12.21

 

Patch & Seed Script Updates Week 49

 

 

 


Comments

  1. Great news! It's good to hear that VMware Workspace ONE UEM Console 2111 is now available for Shared SaaS customers. The console banner notifications feature is particularly exciting, as it will keep users informed about maintenance issues, upgrades, outages, and product announcements. I also appreciate the enhancements made to the Freestyle Orchestrator, such as the fast lane delivery of workflows and more frequent reporting of workflow statuses. The introduction of guest sessions for Launcher is also a welcome addition, as it provides more flexibility for users. Overall, it's clear that this release brings some valuable improvements to the VMware Workspace ONE UEM Console, and I'm excited to see how they will benefit users.

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